## What’s the best way to set up credit burndown for my AI product?  
Schematic Provides Credit-Based Billing Without Needing Custom Logic

##### Flexibility  
Credits are flexible for customers and map well to the AI costs.

##### Avoid Complex Implementation  
Credits require usage tracking, renewal triggers, and balance accounting.

##### Credits as a Service  
Schematic make Credit Burndown simple to add and manage.

## The Problem with Spiky Usage  
Schematic makes credit burndown simple — no custom metering or billing logic required.

### The Old Way  
- Track usage manually in a database  
- Write scripts to decrement credits  
- Manually reset credits each month  
- Support flooded with "why did I get blocked?" tickets

### The Schematic Way  
- Upload or assign credit bundles per customer  
- Automatically burn down credits with usage events  
- Enforce limits in real-time via feature flags  
- Alert customers before they run out

### Use Cases  
- Token-based LLM pricing  
- Pay-as-you-go APIs  
- Trials with limited compute  
- Prepaid usage bundles

## Comparison  
##### Capability  
| Capability                                   | Stripe | Orb | Metronome | Schematic |  
|----------------------------------------------|--------|-----|-----------|-----------|  
| Credit tracking                              | ✅     | ✅  | ✅        | ✅        |  
| Usage-based burn down                        | ❌     | ✅  | ✅        | ✅        |  
| Real-time enforcement                        | ❌     | ❌  | ❌        | ✅        |  
| Usage alerts                                 | ⚠️     | ✅  | ⚠️        | ✅        |  
| Easy credit resets or top-ups                | ❌     | ❌  | ❌        | ✅        |  
| Support for AI-specific patterns (token, inference time, etc.) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |

## Built for  
##### AI Founders  
Balancing infra costs with monetization

##### Product Managers  
Managing usage-based pricing without dev bottlenecks

##### Engineers  
Engineers who want billing to “just work” — especially at scale

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